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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Click on the image to see it bigger. This is another frame from the graphic novel I'm working on, it immediately follows the one posted previously. This scene is a flashback to his senior year as a football player. He is 20; it used to be common in rural Texas to hold boys back so they'd be bigger football players when they reached their last couple of years of school.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Click on the picture to see it full sized. This is one of my early pictures made with Poser and I'm not at all happy with it, especially with the compositing. But the poses and expressions are good, especially the face of the spankee.

The attitude toward spanking grown boys has always fascinated me. In the popular culture of the mid 20th century the rural poor are often shown spanking grown sons; I'm guessing they actually did. In the comic strip Li'l Abner, for example, big strapping (and hot!) Abner gets spanked (off camera) by his diminuitive aunt many times, and the authors obviously think it's hilarious. And Jethro on the Beverly Hillbillies was often told to "fetch me a hickory stick"!

Monday, August 16, 2010

This is a frame from a comic I'm working on about a West Texas guy named Lucas, who is a shapeshifter, although he doesn't know it, or understand it anyway at first. It's going to be grungy and very story oriented, but spanking is a part of his life and it's going to be in the comic. I guess it won't display at full size here.

Lucas is in his late 20s, a widower who lives with his widowed father-in-law, a retired army ranger. This shot is from a flashback to an incident as a high school senior (he'd been held back a couple of years and was 20 in his senior year--I've heard they used to do this with athletic boys in rural West Texas, even if their grades were good, so they'd be bigger football players in high school). In this sequence, he's held after practice by his abusive coach and paddled naked after a shower (another West TX reality--I used to live in TX; it's like another world).

His werewolf/shapeshifter trait kicks in spontaneously if he's in an excess of emotion--during the paddling, he becomes enraged and turns into a wolf, with poor results for the coach. His tendency to turn into a wolf mid-fuck complicates his relationships with the ladies too. But he learns to control it and eventually finds he is not a werewolf but a shapeshifter and can turn into many different animals. He solves and resolves crimes by eating the perps and will be up against right-wing religious nuts and drug gangs.

Not sure whether it's set in the past, the present--they still paddle grown boys in West TX nowadays--or the future, after the 2nd Civil War, where the Independent Republic of Texas will probably be the spankingest place on Earth. Have to decide soon.

Who knows when I'll finish it--I've done two frames so far and they've each taken about 9 hours, but as I get the style down hopefully it'll go faster. I don't know any way to post the comic here, but I'll put it up on Yola or something and link from here. Probably in like a year, but each frame will be a work of art.

Back in the Old West, the average cowboy didn't have a lot of money to spend on poker. He did have a tough backside, plenty of experience of spanking, a sense of humor, and a casual approach to nakedness around the bunkhouse. A spanker's paradise. Although their kangaroo courts sometimes inflicted terrible "chappings" (bare butt strappings with a pair of rolled up chaps) on thieves and other bunkhouse miscreants, playful spankings among a guy and his pals were an innocent pastime in those carefree days.

I am an artist working in a combination of digital and natural media. My Turquine persona deals with spanking of adult males in all its wonderful and not so wonderful manifestations. It is rooted in deep feelings I have for the subject but ultimately, as Tom of Finland once said, I draw "whatever will make my cock stand".

I haven't been online for a while for personal reasons. I now have an old laptop someone gave me and it's slow but it works. I do a variety of art--the above picture was executed in Poser and finished in Photoshop. I don't have access to Poser right now, but I'm working on it.

If anyone out there finds this who has good copies of some of my old pictures (mostly posted on Lochgelly's now defunct Yahoo site), please send them. I only have a few.

Anyway, I'll try to post regularly what I'm doing now, mostly just in Photoshop. If I can come by a scanner I can put up a few drawings...